Hexagram 2: The Receptive → Hexagram 38: Opposition

The Receptive
Earth / Earth
Opposition
Fire / Lake
Changing LinesStable Lines

Changing Lines

This transformation involves 4 changing lines (lines 1, 2, 4, 6).

Trigram Changes

Upper TrigramEarth FireThe Receptive → The Clinging
Lower TrigramEarth LakeThe Receptive → The Joyous

Yilin Verse

邯鄲反言,兄弟生患。涉叔憂恨,卒死不還。

Handan’s false words; brothers give rise to calamity. She Shu grieves and resents; in the end, he dies and does not return.

— Jiao Yanshou, Yilin (Forest of Changes), 1st century BCE

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